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Flat Earth General / Re: Rope around the earth.
« on: January 10, 2014, 11:29:56 PM »
If the Earth were instead a cube, then you'd only need to increase the rope by 8ft to lift it 1ft over the ground all the way around. Is this result surprising too?

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Is this possible? How do you think this would work? Could it fit to the NASA "photos"? ???

No.
Please keep low-content posts out of the upper fora.

This isn't "low content" Obviously, something can't be at once spherical and flat without re-writing the dictionary. Words have definitions, the two are (very, very obviously) mutually exclusive. If someone says "Is a glass of water also a pretzel?" the answer would simply be "no"; no further explanation was warranted. I stand by my (absolutely correct) post.

It is low-content and adds nothing to the discussion.  Maybe try including an explanation, or try to gather further information from the OP, as he may not be explaining things clearly.

An explanation might be warranted if this were being discussed on a Math or theoretical Physics forum that includes the topic of multiple dimensions, but on FES?
No.

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Flat Earth General / Re: .....
« on: July 27, 2013, 09:18:52 PM »
That video did not prove gravity exists in a vacuum.  He turned the tube which "pushes" the feather and coins to move.

What? Care to elaborate?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 18, 2013, 08:22:09 AM »
If you actually realised how a fire mans hose really worked then you "possibly" could change your stance, yet I doubt it.
There are two separate forces acting with a fire mans hose, yet you rocket masters rely on the wrong force and think that's what makes rockets work.
It's a classic con job mind you but that's all it is. A big con.

I know how a hose works, and you've done a good job of ignoring the firecracker too.
They all work with the same principle, as in, they act against the atmosphere, whether it's a fire cracker or a hose or a rocket or anything else for that matter.

Think of each molecule of gas being released from the fire cracker - When it's ejected, it's free to move on its own. How is its free movement helping the body accelerate? It isn't. We know this because the cracker will take off even if sitting on the ground (the gas doesn't keep moving away from the cracker even after release).

I'm sure you agree with this, right?
I'm not being funny here but your post doesn't make sense, can you elaborate here?

After reading it back to myself, I agree with you. My brain knew what was going on, but it could be hard for others to follow my train of thought without context   :)

Imagine a single molecule of gas that is being ejected from the body of the fire cracker. The chemical reaction of the fire and powder which is lit by the fuse starts to produce a lot of gas very quickly. Since we have lots of molecules of gas in a small volume, this creates a higher pressure which as we all should know after discussing this topic for dozens of pages that the gases in a higher pressure move to a lower pressure. This is only in one direction of course, which is out the rear end of the cracker.
So once the gases start to move, they begin colliding with the atmosphere's air. But the gases are now independent of the rocket? If they collide with the air, they aren't in any way touching the cracker anymore. This is what I meant by free movement. The gases are free to move after being ejected from the cracker and have no physical connection any more. Are you claiming that the gases hitting the atmosphere still imparts a force on the cracker? Because the rest of us aren't. We know the cracker is only moving because of the conservation of momentum. The same way you push a ball one way and your body moves in the other way.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 18, 2013, 08:02:35 AM »
If you actually realised how a fire mans hose really worked then you "possibly" could change your stance, yet I doubt it.
There are two separate forces acting with a fire mans hose, yet you rocket masters rely on the wrong force and think that's what makes rockets work.
It's a classic con job mind you but that's all it is. A big con.

I know how a hose works, and you've done a good job of ignoring the firecracker too.
They all work with the same principle, as in, they act against the atmosphere, whether it's a fire cracker or a hose or a rocket or anything else for that matter.

Think of each molecule of gas being released from the fire cracker - When it's ejected, it's free to move on its own. How is its free movement helping the body accelerate? It isn't. We know this because the cracker will take off even if sitting on the ground (the gas doesn't keep moving away from the cracker even after release).

I'm sure you agree with this, right?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 18, 2013, 07:38:50 AM »
If you actually realised how a fire mans hose really worked then you "possibly" could change your stance, yet I doubt it.
There are two separate forces acting with a fire mans hose, yet you rocket masters rely on the wrong force and think that's what makes rockets work.
It's a classic con job mind you but that's all it is. A big con.

I know how a hose works, and you've done a good job of ignoring the firecracker too.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 18, 2013, 07:08:48 AM »
The exhaust gases move in one direction the rocket moves in the opposite direction. What am I missing?
So where exactly is the rocket pushed from to make it take flight?

The momentum of the rocket in one direction and the momentum of the gases in the other direction 'cancel out' each other so the total momentum of the system remains unchanged.  That's what it means to conserve the momentum. As the rocket has momentum it has speed and therefore movement.
And it does not push against the atmosphere right? Is this what you think?

I know, it sounds crazy! We also have crazy hoses that lash around when shooting water out of its nozzle and we also have firecrackers that somehow uses fire to push gases out its rear end.
It's a crazy world!

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 18, 2013, 05:58:44 AM »
Scepti, while you get back to me on OP 2, care to do a thought experiment? These are supposed to be slightly outrageous, so don't mind the impossible circumstances.

Andy, our test subject (and an even 50 kilograms), is floating in space (vacuum, no gravity, that kinda thing. Remember, thought experiment). Beside him is a ... school bus, not moving relative to Andy. Andy has in his possession 1 medicine ball of exactly 10 kilograms.

Andy throws the medicine ball away from himself at 5 m/s, perpendicular to the point of view of Garry, a kid in the school bus. What happens to Andy and his medicine ball?
Nothing, because it cannot happen. I know it's a thought experiment but I can't answer it, because it's unanswerable, except to simply say, it cannot happen.

In a Universe that only differs from our own in a way such that it could happen, what would happen?
It cannot happen. It's a pointless question, seriously.
The entire way you come up with your "theories" is through thought experiments, you then expect people to understand your ideas even though they are impossible as far as most people are concerned. Is it such a stretch to expect you to do the same for someone elses thought experiment?
I'd love to do the same but I cannot answer the question, except to say, it cannot happen. How can I say otherwise if I believe it cannot happen?

Sigh... Let's replace the vacuum with a partial vacuum then. Can it happen now? What would happen?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 18, 2013, 05:24:55 AM »
Scepti, while you get back to me on OP 2, care to do a thought experiment? These are supposed to be slightly outrageous, so don't mind the impossible circumstances.

Andy, our test subject (and an even 50 kilograms), is floating in space (vacuum, no gravity, that kinda thing. Remember, thought experiment). Beside him is a ... school bus, not moving relative to Andy. Andy has in his possession 1 medicine ball of exactly 10 kilograms.

Andy throws the medicine ball away from himself at 5 m/s, perpendicular to the point of view of Garry, a kid in the school bus. What happens to Andy and his medicine ball?
Nothing, because it cannot happen. I know it's a thought experiment but I can't answer it, because it's unanswerable, except to simply say, it cannot happen.

In a Universe that only differs from our own in a way such that it could happen, what would happen?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 17, 2013, 07:43:44 AM »
You say the ISS isn't in a vacuum and there's "slight" air pressure at supposedly 230 miles and yet Felix Baumgartner is in "slight" air pressure, supposedly, at 21 miles. Do you see any problems with the bull c rap yet?

Not at all. Felix (and Joseph Kittinger before him) were at an altitude that could support a balloon. They were actually below the point at which meteors 'burn up' in our atmosphere--below the Columbia disaster. So while the air pressure was much less than at sea level, there was/is still very much air pressure there.

The ISS is well above balloon height. However, there's no definite edge to space, and the atmosphere continues well above the ISS. While there's not enough to lift a balloon, there's enough to slow down LEO satellites moving over 7 km/s. Atmosphere here is about 1/1000000 times the density of sea level, or 1.4 x 10-5 psi (.1 Pa), which is much greater than the "1*10-12" to which you have agreed is still not a vacuum.

And since there's air, albeit a very tiny amount, rockets would still work (just as the gun worked in that box with a very tiny amount of air). This this entire thread is irrelevant.
No...it's not this thread that's irrelevant but the post from you is irrelevant and totally wrong.

How is his post irrelevant? You only have a problem with a perfect vacuum, and no one has ever claimed that there are absolutely no gases where satellites orbit. In fact, you even made a thread a while back about satellites needing to be reboosted.
When I argue a point with people like you, I have to use what you accept as true to make my points, which is why I try and destroy your little magical things from how you people think.

So as I understand it, you order of thinking has been

- Accept "space is a vacuum" as truth
- Decide that rockets cannot work in a perfect vacuum
- Ignore claims that space isn't a perfect vacuum

Is that about right? Is that how people like you think?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 17, 2013, 07:22:59 AM »
You say the ISS isn't in a vacuum and there's "slight" air pressure at supposedly 230 miles and yet Felix Baumgartner is in "slight" air pressure, supposedly, at 21 miles. Do you see any problems with the bull c rap yet?

Not at all. Felix (and Joseph Kittinger before him) were at an altitude that could support a balloon. They were actually below the point at which meteors 'burn up' in our atmosphere--below the Columbia disaster. So while the air pressure was much less than at sea level, there was/is still very much air pressure there.

The ISS is well above balloon height. However, there's no definite edge to space, and the atmosphere continues well above the ISS. While there's not enough to lift a balloon, there's enough to slow down LEO satellites moving over 7 km/s. Atmosphere here is about 1/1000000 times the density of sea level, or 1.4 x 10-5 psi (.1 Pa), which is much greater than the "1*10-12" to which you have agreed is still not a vacuum.

And since there's air, albeit a very tiny amount, rockets would still work (just as the gun worked in that box with a very tiny amount of air). This this entire thread is irrelevant.
No...it's not this thread that's irrelevant but the post from you is irrelevant and totally wrong.

How is his post irrelevant? You only have a problem with a perfect vacuum, and no one has ever claimed that there are absolutely no gases where satellites orbit. In fact, you even made a thread a while back about satellites needing to be reboosted.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 17, 2013, 04:40:19 AM »
I think we can safely put conservation of momentum in the bin for this one, as you appear not to want to answer it.
Rockets can not go out of the breathable atmosphere and they do not work without breathable atmosphere.

Actually, I think we can put a flame to your already binned theories since you don't care about any explanations that are handed to you.


I don't need it explaining to be honest, I just like the way it gets squirmed out of to explain rockets.
All ways are tried to discount atmosphere working with rockets and they are scraping the barrel, plus reliant of scientific bull crap.

Exactly as I thought.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 17, 2013, 01:55:54 AM »
what conservation of momentum is when relating to a rocket.

Do you understand conservation of momentum even at all or just can't/won't apply it to rockets?
I just want  you to explain it, as you seem to go on about it all the time, so explain it as your reason for rocket propulsion and how it works in getting that rocket up and into so called space.

Yes, I do go on about it sometimes and have explained the principle on numerous occasions, yet you still don't know what it means... But since you're too lazy to look it up for yourself, and I'm too lazy to repeat myself again only to have you spit on it with contempt,

Here you go.
Simply explain it on this topic, please. Use the rockets vertical ascent and briefly explain what this conservation of momentum does and how it works with a rocket.

Did you not read the link?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 17, 2013, 12:17:11 AM »
what conservation of momentum is when relating to a rocket.

Do you understand conservation of momentum even at all or just can't/won't apply it to rockets?
I just want  you to explain it, as you seem to go on about it all the time, so explain it as your reason for rocket propulsion and how it works in getting that rocket up and into so called space.

Yes, I do go on about it sometimes and have explained the principle on numerous occasions, yet you still don't know what it means... But since you're too lazy to look it up for yourself, and I'm too lazy to repeat myself again only to have you spit on it with contempt,

Here you go.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 17, 2013, 12:04:20 AM »
what conservation of momentum is when relating to a rocket.

Do you understand conservation of momentum even at all or just can't/won't apply it to rockets?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 08:49:16 PM »
supposed space rockets getting into space, doesn't hinge on contained air.Rockets need atmosphere to push against and this alone renders them useless and you don;t need to say, "what, no , no , no , they don't need atmosphere"....they do and it's as simple as that, so that for starters is a no go, followed by expansion of air that would tear the rocket apart.

Then let me just make a few modifications to my previous post:

Space rockets not being able to get into space is hanging on by your little unsupported claim that a metal container needs a non-zero outside air pressure to contain its internal air pressure else it would expand indefinitely and that you need an atmosphere for propulsion. But unfortunately,

1) You haven't tested this claim
2) Others more intelligent than you have debunked this claim
3) It's illogical
4) It ignores the conservation of momentum

So I guess you don't understand air pressure and propulsion either.
What do you mean, the conservation of momentum? Just clarify what you mean when applying this to a rocket.
The gases are accelerated out the rear of the rocket, and the conservation of momentum states...?
You are going to have to explain a lot better than that. Tell me about this conservation of momentum for the rockets vertical lift off and how this all works.

I was actually expecting you to finish off that sentence. This isn't a physics class, and I'm not going to be your teacher. Also, considering that you're capable of concocting your own theories, I'm pretty sure you have the capability of researching this term and applying it to the problem at hand. It's not hard, the internet is chock full of explanations of the conservation of momentum (don't confuse it with the conservation of energy).

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 10:39:14 AM »
supposed space rockets getting into space, doesn't hinge on contained air.Rockets need atmosphere to push against and this alone renders them useless and you don;t need to say, "what, no , no , no , they don't need atmosphere"....they do and it's as simple as that, so that for starters is a no go, followed by expansion of air that would tear the rocket apart.

Then let me just make a few modifications to my previous post:

Space rockets not being able to get into space is hanging on by your little unsupported claim that a metal container needs a non-zero outside air pressure to contain its internal air pressure else it would expand indefinitely and that you need an atmosphere for propulsion. But unfortunately,

1) You haven't tested this claim
2) Others more intelligent than you have debunked this claim
3) It's illogical
4) It ignores the conservation of momentum

So I guess you don't understand air pressure and propulsion either.
What do you mean, the conservation of momentum? Just clarify what you mean when applying this to a rocket.
The gases are accelerated out the rear of the rocket, and the conservation of momentum states...?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 09:47:41 AM »
supposed space rockets getting into space, doesn't hinge on contained air.Rockets need atmosphere to push against and this alone renders them useless and you don;t need to say, "what, no , no , no , they don't need atmosphere"....they do and it's as simple as that, so that for starters is a no go, followed by expansion of air that would tear the rocket apart.

Then let me just make a few modifications to my previous post:

Space rockets not being able to get into space is hanging on by your little unsupported claim that a metal container needs a non-zero outside air pressure to contain its internal air pressure else it would expand indefinitely and that you need an atmosphere for propulsion. But unfortunately,

1) You haven't tested this claim
2) Others more intelligent than you have debunked this claim
3) It's illogical
4) It ignores the conservation of momentum

So I guess you don't understand air pressure and propulsion either.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 09:44:28 AM »
You need to learn to stop twisting things.

I'll try again.

Air on the ground pumped into a container at 28 psi will stay in that container because the container is designed to hold it from exploding and equalising with the air pressure outside of it.
If you were to take that same container with 14 psi in it into the sky, it will at some point, explode due to the pressure inside, managing to exert it's force due to expansion, against lesser and lesser force acting against that container.
On the ground, you still had 14psi pushing down on it and around it. Not so as you get higher.

We already know your stance and have given a rebuttal as to why it's illogical, yet you're still completely ignoring it!

Or maybe you just can't comprehend it...

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 09:33:32 AM »
Well, if you understood air pressure, you would not be arguing about space rockets, you would realise they can not get into space, yet you believe they can, so obviously you cannot understand air pressure and expansion, can you, seriously.

Space rockets not being able to get into space is hanging on by your little unsupported claim that a metal container needs a non-zero outside air pressure to contain its internal air pressure else it would expand indefinitely. But unfortunately,

1) You haven't tested this claim
2) Others more intelligent than you have debunked this claim
3) It's illogical

So I guess you don't understand air pressure either.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 08:49:22 AM »
But let us try a different approach, shall we? Our 28 psi air tank on Earth. What is stopping the air from expanding outward to equalize pressure with the surrounding air and rupturing the tank?
The tank itself due to it's strength.

So the tank itself produces a 14 psi pressure inward?
Did I actually say that?
Did I imply that?
Have I mentioned that?

Maybe not, but Newton's laws imply it. Since the pressurized tank doesn't accelerate and neither does its contents, we must conclude that the forces must be balanced.

You need to know how air pressure works before I can explain it to you. Many think they know but none, so far appear to know it fully.

We need to understand air pressure before you can explain to us how air pressure works? wtf lol

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 08:07:29 AM »
What I'm saying is, the cylinder can hold the pressure against breaching it, because it won't expand anymore.
In a vacuum it will expand and expand until it gets into that vacuum.
Think of a helium balloon. The higher it gets, the more it expands, until it goes pop and that's helium which is naturally in the upper atmosphere, so now imagine air pressure.
It shouldn't be hard to grasp.

That same balloon wouldn't be able to contain a 28 psi pressure at sea level without popping either, so your analogy is incomplete.

Also note that because balloons stretch to occupy more volume of air and thus not increasing their internal pressure very much, you will only start increasing the pressure significantly if you reach its stretching limits and are able to fill the balloon up further without it popping or growing larger.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 16, 2013, 06:28:48 AM »
Complete expansion in a vacuum, if it were possible. What does this mean?

On earth, your tank holds compressed air at 28 psi, against 14psi so it's attempt at  expansion is held back by a thick cylinder, against an opposing force.
In a vacuum like space, the tank at 14 psi has nothing to hold it back, at all, so it expands to it's fullest, meaning the cylinder is breached.
Any problems with this?

Yes, I do have a problem with it. Doesn't the tank have any resistance of its own? Why can it contain 28 psi which is 28 pounds of force per square inch with only 14 psi from the outside that's helping out, which leaves a net force of 14 psi outwards while it can't contain 14 psi with a 0 psi from the outside helping out, which again leaves a net force of 14 psi outwards.

Don't you see the flaw in this? In both scenarios, the exact same net force is pushing outwards, and since the cylinder is strong enough to contain a 28 psi pressure with only the help of a 14 psi atmosphere, then the structure itself must be able to apply a force of its own, which it should then be able to use to contain a 14 psi pressure in a 0 psi atmosphere.

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Flat Earth General / Re: Gravity is atmosphere v mass/weight.
« on: July 15, 2013, 01:41:31 AM »
A vacuum, or should I say, "an absolute vacuum" means nothing travels through it, no matter how much you want to believe it will.
I don't think anyone here has ever claimed that they hope things can travel through a vacuum. Wishful thinking isn't on our agenda.

We can't even get to grips with our own earth and yet people just want to believe in all this fantasy about our sun only being a little star among billions of much bigger stars that are hundreds/thousands, etc, light years away. Come on for gods sake, have a bleeding think about it all.
Just sit for a few hours outside in the sun and have a look at it, shining brightly in "our atmosphere" and you can see it's no huge supposed 1 million km diameter glowing ball of nuclear fusion.
...But this sure sounds like nothing other than wishful thinking.
Call it what you want, it has no bearing on my thoughts.

Neither can evidence sway your thoughts.

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Flat Earth General / Re: Gravity is atmosphere v mass/weight.
« on: July 15, 2013, 01:29:06 AM »
A vacuum, or should I say, "an absolute vacuum" means nothing travels through it, no matter how much you want to believe it will.
I don't think anyone here has ever claimed that they hope things can travel through a vacuum. Wishful thinking isn't on our agenda.

We can't even get to grips with our own earth and yet people just want to believe in all this fantasy about our sun only being a little star among billions of much bigger stars that are hundreds/thousands, etc, light years away. Come on for gods sake, have a bleeding think about it all.
Just sit for a few hours outside in the sun and have a look at it, shining brightly in "our atmosphere" and you can see it's no huge supposed 1 million km diameter glowing ball of nuclear fusion.
...But this sure sounds like nothing other than wishful thinking.

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Flat Earth General / Re: Gravity is atmosphere v mass/weight.
« on: July 15, 2013, 12:33:58 AM »
One theory pops up and off we go, until someone comes along and picks it apart, so now the added parts are fitted into it and so on and so on, right up until this very day and beyond, as things get picked apart.

Yep, sounds about right, and is quite a necessary consequence of the "proof by contradiction"-like philosophy of science.

Is this a problem?

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't travel through a vacuum.

So Bell jars, which are used all the time down here on Earth in demonstrations and can easily be seen through, should appear black?

I suppose I came up with a way out of this, which is blaming it on the conspiracy, using strong magnets to keep the jar in place, though without anything metallic in the jar ...
You need to stop getting mixed up with bell jars and what not, on earth.
No vacuum can be made on earth. Can't you get your head around this?

Nothing travels through a true vacuum, not sound, not light, nothing.

But air molecules do! Soo...

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Flat Earth General / Re: Gravity is atmosphere v mass/weight.
« on: July 14, 2013, 11:19:08 PM »
I used to be a little more open minded, but sadly, I now have to admit that I instantly jump to nasty conclusions about one's intelligence when they ignore the scientific method.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Unexplained and Unanswered Rotational Illusion
« on: July 14, 2013, 11:08:35 PM »
I inform you that I have given this book to physicists and they were frustrated after reading some chapters. They couldnt believe that some basic things had gone unnoticed by them. Believe it or not, instead of laughing they began questioning heliocentrism.

LOL you're a terrible liar.

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Flat Earth General / Re: Gravity is atmosphere v mass/weight.
« on: July 14, 2013, 10:11:40 AM »
The speed of light needs calibrating severely.

So the speed of light in a vacuum is different to the published result? (a near vacuum for those that are prone to getting their panties in a twist).

That's really interesting! Tell us all about how logically, its speed is different to 3x108m/s.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Space Flight
« on: July 14, 2013, 10:06:36 AM »
I just want you to be clear on what an horizon is, I'm not playing games.

The distinct line where the land and sky meet.

Do you also want me to explain how this works in both RET and FET for you?
And why do you think this distinct line happens?

It's based on simple geometry. Draw a diagram.

So, do you want me to explain the RET or FET version? Or both? Or maybe you can just cut to the chase and tell me how the sun can seem to fall below the horizon, while also not changing size as it supposedly moves off into the distance, while also having a constant angular velocity throughout the day (it will move at a constant 360/24 = 15 degrees per hour which doesn't happen for planes that fly over our heads and off into the distance).
Oh, and in the meantime, you can make up whatever you think the horizon really is. Remember, it's your turn for show and tell, and story telling is encouraged.

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